1. The act of meditation is being spacious.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

2. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

- Thich Nhat Hahn

3. Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

- Baba Ram Dass

4. With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life.

- Lama Surya Das

5. Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

- Zen Master Bankei Yotaku

6. Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

- Zen Master Hsing Yun

7. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

8. To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

9. I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

- Eckhart Tolle

10. Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

- Osho

11. Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

- Pema Chodron

12. In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practicing meditation.

- Anonymous

13. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

- Swami Muktananda

14. We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way. This is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind; and this is achieved by means of meditation.

- Samael Aun Weor

15. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

- Bruce Lee

16. If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

- Ramana Maharshi

17. The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of peace.

- J. Donald Walters

18. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

- Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

19. Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

- Ajahn Brahm

20. Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

- Swami Dhyan Giten